Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Dreadful RRiIrOad Plunge in West
virginia.

virginia.
4 horrible accident happened 10 miles
from Parkersburg, W. Va, Wednesday
morning on the Marietta mineral railroad.
heavy mixed train had Just passed Vim
cent co. station when the train was divided
in order to cross more safely "A trestle 30
feet high. The first section passed over all
right, when the engine bearing the engineer,
fireman, conductor, brakeman and pas
senger returned for section two. When at
the highest point of the trestle the engine
gave a sudden jerk and plunged down to
the abyss below carrying all ON board The
engineer and fireman were instantly killed,
the fireman having his head and one leg
cut off while the engineer was cut in two.
The conductor and brakeman were fatally
scalded. The passenger had both legs brok
en- and was injured internally. The section
which the engine was returning for had
passenger coaches loaded, and the loss of
| life would have been frightful had the acct
dent happened while returning with them.
Down IA 3O-FOoI RmbnnLmenI.
/ The morning passenger train from Glare
mont on the Concord x Claremont railroad,
consisting of an engine, combination car,
smoker and baggage car and one passenger
car was thrown from the track four miles
west of Bradford. ~ H., at $50 Monday
morning, 10y the accumulation of snow up
on the track. The engine went down a 20.
foot embankment and was wrecked The
combination car turned over upon its side.
The 40 passengers and trainmen who were
on the train all escaped injury.
An attempt was made last Saturday night
to burn the town of Howell, Mich. There
has been vigorous fight in the place by
the prohibitionists against the liquor dealers
. l.. -,
it. The fire started in II hardware store
whose owner, +. n. Monroe, is chairman of
the county prohibitory committee and an
active worker in the temperance cause.
December LIST he received letter from De
troit telling him he must stop his work ''or
we will burn you out root and branch.
You may prepare for the worst, as we are
on your track This letter was signed
MANY saloon Keepers" and the prohibi-
tionistS consider it an explanation of the
fire. A pistol shot was fired at the first
fire engine company that appeared in an
swer to the alarm The fire was subdued
after about $40, 900 damage had been done.
A press despatch says Obadiah Wheel
ock a wealthy and eccentric old Philadel-
phian. hanged himself Saturday afternoon
in the attic of his house. A note left on a
table was marked a o'clock p NJ" and
said that his only reason for taking his life
, was ill-health, concluding with a farewell
TO all his friends Wheelock was a bachel
or about - years old was worth about
$50, 900, and owned a large amount of real
, estate in Germantown He has a sister in
{ New York and half brother i'll Vermont
{ who, it is believed, will inherit the estate
Mrs Mary p Pelton, sister of ex-Gov
! Tilden, died at her home in New York las
2 Saturday, of pneumonia, aged ~ years
None of the money or other property left
her by her brother, the late Gov Tilden
had been received by her up to the time %
I her death and there is much criticism o.
the way the estate is being managed.
l Rev. Justin d. Fulton, the well known
} Baptist clergyman, is about to abandon hi
present pulpit in Brooklyn and engage il
the work of the conversion" of the Roman
Catholics of this country.
.. An old man named Perry, living in Lau
rens county, Ga, who was general,
thought to have money in his house, wa
aroused one night recently by two maske,
= men breaking into his bedroom. He crap
Piled with one of them and was getting tn
! better of him, when the burglar called OF
a his companion to shoot, which he immedi
ately did. The bullet, however, misses
: Perry and pierced the heart of the accom-
a Ducei VINO staggered out INTO tne Nafu an
= fell dead. The murderer then fed PER-
: found the next morning that the dead ma
y was his next neighbor, constable name
! Upton. His accomplice, identified as a
! escaped convict named Weaver, has no
;, been captured. Hobbs, county ofiicit
" and a kinsman of Weaver, is also implicit
= ed. Perry was Weaver's uncle.
!, Chas. A. Freeman of Pocasset, Mass, VIII
= killed his 7-years old daughter with a cary
:. ing knife in 1880 while in state of rel
! gious hallucination, has been discharge
/ from the Danvers asylum, physicians test
4 flying that he is no longer in a conditio
:. dangerous to himself or others.
It The ice in the upper Missouri river
Il breaking up, and the melting of the dee
Is snow threatens disastrous freshet all dow
the valley. Over 30 bridges on the NORTH
II ern Pacific railroad, between Bismarck an
/, Billings, have been swept away, and niue
% damage has been occasioned by the floods.